Understanding planning · 13 min read
Planning application documents: what to read first
Understand planning application documents, officer reports and decision notices. Use a reading checklist, document table and worked example to inspect a case.
England · Local authority
Explore collected planning applications and decisions for Brentwood Borough Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal to find a record.
3,281 approved · 482 refused · 157 withdrawn. Most recent record check: 14 Oct 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
Contact details were found on council pages. Check the source for opening hours and which enquiries the service handles.
Explore published planning boundaries and follow their source records for designation details. Coverage varies: an empty map does not mean there are no restrictions. Check the council’s current maps and documents before relying on a boundary.
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Data downloaded 14 Sept 2026. Display boundaries are simplified and indicative. Map record counts are not a complete count of designations or directions.
Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Cheale Meats Ltd Orchard Farm Little Warley Hall Lane West Horndon Little Warley Essex CM13 3EN
Received Not publishedLittle Orchard 92 Priests Lane Shenfield Brentwood CM15 8HQ
Received Not publishedThe Horse And Groom Warley Road Great Warley Essex CM13 3AE
Received Not published43 Kilworth Avenue Shenfield Essex CM15 8PT
Received Not published154 Priests Lane Shenfield Essex CM15 8HN
Received Not publishedHeron Court Farm 200 Brentwood Road Herongate Essex CM13 3PN
Received Not published196 Priests Lane Shenfield Essex CM15 8LG
Received Not publishedLarkins Playing Field Ongar Road Pilgrims Hatch Brentwood CM15 9JB
Received Not publishedThe Horse And Groom Warley Road Great Warley Essex CM13 3AE
Received Not published42 Shenfield Crescent Brentwood Essex CM15 8BW
Received Not published22 Petresfield Way West Horndon Essex CM13 3TG
Received Not published18 Longmead Close Shenfield Essex CM15 8DT
Received Not published110 Westwood Avenue Brentwood Essex CM14 4NU
Received Not published11 Leafy Way Hutton Essex CM13 2QW
Received Not published126 Ingrave Road Brentwood Essex CM13 2AG
Received Not published7 - 11 Chelmsford Road Shenfield Essex CM15 8RG
Received Not published47 Whittington Road Hutton Essex CM13 1JX
Received Not publishedLand West Of Honeypot Lane Brentwood Essex
Received Not published51 Spital Lane Brentwood Essex CM14 5PQ
Received Not publishedThorndon Hall Thorndon Park Ingrave Essex
Received Not publishedInglenook 4 Stondon Green Nine Ashes Road Stondon Massey Essex CM15 0EN
Received Not publishedInglenook 4 Stondon Green Nine Ashes Road Stondon Massey Essex CM15 0EN
Received Not publishedPooks Hill Riseway Brentwood Essex CM15 8BG
Received Not publishedAnglo European School Willow Green Ingatestone Essex CM4 0DJ
Received Not publishedRecords are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
View all applicationsStart with the address or application reference. Open a record to read the proposal, dates and available documents, then check the official register for the latest plans and consultation details. If nothing appears, check coverage before treating the result as a complete planning history.
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These figures describe applications collected by PlanningTrack for Brentwood Borough Council, across all dates currently available. They are a partial dataset, rather than an authority-wide performance measure. The date range does not establish continuous historical coverage.
The approval percentage is approved records divided by approved plus refused records. Pending, withdrawn and unknown outcomes are excluded. No percentage is shown until there is an approved or refused record.
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